The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-08-25

The prosecution Of tho boodler county
commissioners at Chicago IL to be followed
up by an advance on the board OF aldermen.
F. A: Hoyt, cashier of the Putnam Coun.
ty Saving bunk at Carmel, N. Y, Is q de-
faulter in the amount Of $25. ZOO.
Ow ing to inability to make arrangements
with the railroads for the transportation
OF delegates, the meeting of the National
Editorial association called to meet at
Denver Sept. has been postponed.
George H. Stearns has resigned the Office
OF United States district attorney ioa
Massachusetts.
r. G. Dun & Co., report that during the
past week there have been less failures in
Minnesota and Dakota than In any other
seven days for year. 1t Is argued that
better times are assured from this fact.
Heavy forest fires have been raging neat
st. Ignace, Mich.
At Hammondsport, N. T., Charles HaiRh.
shot his wife and himself. Both are dead.
The couple leave an infant q lew months
old.
News has been received by the American
board OF the arrest and imprisonment in
the Caroline islands OF Rev. Edward Doane,
the veteran missionary, on q charge of in.
citing the natives to disobey the governor.
Mr.. Doane denied the accusations. The
Spanish government will be asked by the
department OF state to investigate.
st. Paul and Helena capitalists pur.
chase eight hundred acres at Helena Mon.,
$3.50. 900 worth Of dirt for q it1rture
market-Northern Pacific officials are in
terested.
Tho American Bar association held ito
annua! session at Syracuse, N. Y. Tho
following officers were elected: President,
George G. Wright, Dcs Moines, Iowa; sec.
rotary, Edward Otis Hinckly, Baltimore;
treasurer, Francis Rawlc, philadelphia:
executive committee, C. c. Bonney, Chicago;
Simeon E. Baldwin, New Haven; George
A. Mercer, Savannah. Among the officers
elected by the bar association were the
following Iowa-president, Oliver =.
Shiras; local council, John F. Duncombe,
John S. Runne1s and Joseph A. Anderson.
Cole; local council, Reuben G. Benton,
John "A. Lowell and Hiram F. Stevens.
Montana-Yice president. B. g. Wade;
local council. Henry L. Blake and Edwin
Toole. WiscOnsin-Vice president. Alfred
c. Carley; local council. Thomas Hudson;
James D: Jenkins, Bradley g. Schley,
Adolph Hudson and John c. Gregory.
The New York creditors OF the Hayward
Rubber company. manufacturers OF rub
Der goods at Norwich, Conn.,, have receiv-
ed official notice of the appointment OF
Charles Bard as receiver OF the the company.
No other details were given in the notice.
This was the first intimation in the trade
that the company was in trouble. The
company belonged to the combination, and
since entering it the business was supposed
to have improved. The company has al
ways stood we'll in the trade here. 1t was
incorporated in june 1874. The capital
stock was $4OO.O 600. The factory il To-
Gated at Winchester, Conn.,. where the
real estate was valued at 1900, 900.
Large sums have been spent in improve
ments there: The assets OF the company
600, and the liabilities obout $4OO, 600,
outside OF the capital stock:
Tho following details OF troops of
the regulat army have been made to at
tend the National Guard camp and drill
at Chicago: Four companies Of the TWEEN
ty.third infantry from Fort Wayne. Mich;
One light battery, "F." Fourth artillery;
Fort Smelling, MIMI. and troop OF cavalry
from Fort LeavenwOrth, Kan. Col. H. NJ.
Black, Twenty-third infantry, has been
detailed to command the camp aud Mai.
Overshine, Twenty.third infantry to com
mand the infantry.
Gov. Leslie OF Montana has offered q re-
ward OF $500 for the apprehension OF the
highwayman who robbed O'Niel and Hack
EFT GU the Thompson Falls road. An Of
fer OF 5000 from the Bank of Murray, Ida.
no, and 5000 from the First National
Bank of Helena.
Prince Ferdinand arrived at Philippu.
polls, the capital of Eastern Roumelia. He
formally received the offering of bread and
salt from the municipality and numerous
addresses from the clergy. The people re.
ceived the prince with much enthusiasm
Germany has instructed her consul here
not to consider himself attached to the
Bulgarian government:
At Chicago, Levi Rosenfeld died at his
Prairie avenue mansion. aged seventy two,
leaving an estate OF SO, OOO, 900. The de.
ceased was the father OF Maurice Rosen:
field, the broker who failed as the result OF
the Kershaw wheat deal. Another son
and a daughter also survive. It is expect
ed that Maurice Rosenfeld will inherit a
considerable share of his fathers estate,
and this makes the creditors of Rosenfeld
| Il Co. somewhat anxious to know what
disposition the father has made of it.
At St. Joseph, Mo-, John Laws, notori-
| Gus desperado, was shot through tho body
| and fatally wounded at his homo by six
deputy sheriffs, to whom he refused to sur.
render.
The liabilities and assets Of Ives & Co.
are placed. in round numbers, at SIG, 400.
600 and $23, zoe. 600 respectively.
! his father, John 8. Byers. The Byers
live fifteen miles north OF Indiana. Pa.
Col. Walter s. Babcock, member of the
we'll known lumber firm of Babcock e.
Wheeler, Chicago has a bullet in his chest,
but how it came there and what the his
tory OF q day or OF years that had it's de-
| nouncement in possible tradgedy, no liv-
| ing man has as yet explained. Col. Bah
cock called upon DR.. W. w. McMann at
Gardner, ILL.,, a small town on the Chicago
e. Alton, sixty.six miles below Chicago,
| chest, but would not say word further
than to express wish to be taken to Chi.
cago.
Mrs. Melvina r. w. Payne and her dauph-
ter Anna NJ. near relatives OF the late
Thurlow Weed, in a state of restitution in
New York locked themselves in IL room, a
razor and an empty laudanum bottle
were on u chair beside the bed. Half stu.
pified by tire poison. probably, and insensi.
BILE to pain, the women had cut the artc-
ries at their elbows and ankles and bled to
had unloosed their grip, and they lay side
by side facing each other. Letters found
on table beside the bed showed that they
had carefully considered the plan OF sui
eide, and decided to die together.
The New York supreme court decides
against Cornell university in the matter OF
the Fisk McGraw bequests.
Elder Evans, Of the Shaker community,
at New Lebanon, Columbia county, N. Y.
has just celebrated his eighty fifth birth
day. For fifty-fiv years he has abstained
from eating fish and flesh.
At Pleasant Hill, Mo-, &. c. Dawson, q
prominent citizen, was shot and killed by
Charles Tabor, a sporting man.
At Eau Claire, Wis, Charles II. Ash
was kicked in the head by horse and
died. He was a son of Capt. Henry Ash,
formerly a we'll known stage line proprie-
tor and steamboat man.
The wife OF Edgar l.. Wakeman formerly
Of the Chicago Current, was successful in
her suit for divorce.
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